Neil Gaiman on libraries

April 19, 2010 Sylvia

I’ve been coming across high profile support for libraries recently. Keith Richards in his forthcoming autobiography saying “When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. The public library is a great equaliser.”
James Lovelock, in the BBC4 series Beautiful Minds, spoke of the impact his local library had on him as a child, and how the knowledge he absorbed there gave him the foundations on which his scientific career was built, and with it the Gaia theory. Today, one of my regular newsletters included 3 recordings of Neil Gaiman talking about the importance of libraries – in Minnesota. Well worth a listen!

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/04/12/gaiman/